New Delhi, April 05: Railways will revise the tendering process for wagon procurement to make it more competetive and faster.
“The terms and conditions for wagon tender is being revised to give more weightage to competetive factors and reduce the weightage of past performance factors,” said a senior Railway Ministry official today.
The national transporter procured 16,638 wagons in the 2010-11 financial year and 15,597 wagons in 2009-10. It has set the target of acquiring 18,000 wagons in the 2011-12 fiscal.
While locomotives and coaches are manufactured by Railways, wagons are mostly procured from outside industries.
“Till now the companies which have manufactured more wagons in the past are being favoured with more orders. In the revised system, companies with higher and better capacities of delivery with low cost will be given preference,” said the official.
Railways have five workshops for manufacturing wagons across the country.
-Agencies